3.3.5 Laws on narcotics and prevention and suppression against narcotics
The applicable law is the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The state’s policy is “to safeguard the integrity of its territory and the well-being of its citizenry particularly the youth, from the harmful effects of dangerous drugs on their physical and mental well-being, and to defend the same against acts or omissions detrimental to their development and preservation .” Dangerous drugs are defined to “include those listed in the Schedules annexed to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, and in the Schedules annexed to the 1971 Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances as enumerated” .